21 Keys to a Happy Life

1. Compliment three people every day.
2. Watch a sunrise.
3. Be the first to say “Hello.”
4. Live beneath your means.
5. Treat everyone as you want to be treated.
6. Never give up on anybody; miracles happen.
7. Forget the Jones’.
8. Remember someone’s name.
9. Pray not for things, but for wisdom and courage.
10. Be tough-minded, but tender hearted.
11. Be kinder than you have to be.
12. Don’t forget that a person’s greatest emotional need is to feel appreciated.
13. Keep your promises.
14. Show cheerfulness even when you don’t feel it.
15. Remember that overnight success usually takes 15 years.
16. Leave everything better than you found it.
17. Remember that winners do what losers don’t want to do.
18. When you arrive at your job in the morning, let the first thing you say brighten everyone’s day.
19. Don’t rain on other people’s parades.
20. Don’t waste an opportunity to tell someone you love them.
21. Keep some things to yourself and don’t promote havoc by hurting people you love.

7 Keys to a Happy Life - There is an explanation for each of the following points. Make sure you go read them. There is a lot of insight on this page.

1. Do not act in order to receive a payoff.
2. You are the only judge of your life and what you will judge in the last moment of your life, is how well you loved.
3. You are perfect, were perfect, and always will be perfect.
4. You act based on what you know.
5. Fear is your biggest enemy, and can only be conquered by faith.
6. No action is involuntary, including your thoughts.
7. Gratitude is the antidote for unhappiness.

10 simple keys to a Happy life - Each of the following points have great explanations on the page provided. please read them.

1. Wealth
2. Desire
3. Intelligence
4. Genetics
5. Beauty
6. Friendship
7. Marriage
8. Faith
9. Charity
10. Age

The Key to Dying Happy - I really like this particular blog article. It actually goes into how to create purpose in your life.

• To die happy, you must live life with that end in mind. Live a life of purpose.

The Diary Of A New Buddha: Five Keys To Becoming Happy: There are some great explanations to the following points on this blog.

1. Happiness begins with a vow.
2. Happiness is overcoming unhappiness.
3. The solution to your problem lies within.
4. Don’t compare yourself with others.
5. Be in the here and now.

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It seems that there is a common theme among the different key to a happy life. (These are my keys to a happy life at the moment)

1. Do not live for yourself. Live to help others. (Have a Purpose)
2. Do not live for money or material things.
3. Live as though you won’t have a tomorrow. (What will people say at your funeral. How will you be remembered) 
4. Have a goal (or set of goals) and a plan to achieve those goals. Then focus on that plan.

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